Jaden's 6th Birthday!

Our handsome little man turned 6 this year!

Jaden-boy started off his happy day with a couple presents from mom and dad. Some sugar cereal for breakfast (don't tell Beeda!) and a new shirt to wear to school.



It was a busy day for dad, but he was able to come home for a quick minute so we could sing and have cake... chocolate of course.


You could definitely give me an "F" in the subject of taking pictures. I only got pics of the present we got him! Well, actually, Beeda and Pa went in on it too. But I didn't get pics of the Active Life Extreme Challenge Wii game G&G Haynes got him.

Since Jaden's lego set has lots of little pieces, it's not for little girls named KynnLee. So we took advantage of the opportunity to let her play with her Cinderella legos (and strapped her in her chair) while we put together Jaden's City lego set.

I couldn't resist snapping a pic of this! She's holding a tiny princess mirror and checking herself out!! Ha ha ha, it was to die for!! :) She's my little princess!

Hope you had a Happy Birthday Jaden!! We love you!!

Mimunk

The other day I came into the living room to see KynnLee with her head under the blinds at this window talking and pointing excitedly about something.

I opened the blinds to see this looking back at her...

Look closely.

It's there.

Or here's a close up.

She was so stinkin cute!! She'd say "Wook!! Wook!!"

Seriously, what are the chances of her looking out a window we rarely use when a chipmunk is there??

I told her it was a chipmunk. I think he lives under all those sticks.

He would go under the sticks and she'd say, "Where de go?? Where mimpmunk?"

I watched with her for a few minutes and told her that the sticks were his house and she would jabber about it and I'd hear the words "mimpmunk" and "house". We opened the window and threw some bread crumbs to him and he ran away. After I walked away, a few minutes later I heard her say, "Dere he is!!!! Wook! Wook!! It's mimpmunk!"

Sure enough, I came to look and he was back! She even got to see him eating her bread. It was so fun!

A short while later we had to go get Jaden from school. On our way home I told her to tell Jaden what she saw.

"Janen!! ... jibber jabber... a Mimpmunk!!"

Those two would have thrown a whole loaf of bread to that chipmunk if I would have let them. He came to visit through the window for a few days. We haven't seen him in a bit, but we should check more often, or maybe throw him more bread.

Jaden told me, "Mom, I think he wants to be our pet".

Me: "Ok, he can be our OUTSIDE pet".

~Tooth Fairy! ~

On Friday, March 5th at approximately 8:30am, Jaden Dan Haynes lost his first tooth!

I happen to have a bit of experience with pulling teeth. My good friend Elizabeth has a sweet little girl, Meredith, and she let me pull 2 of her teeth. I got pretty good at tying floss around teeth. That floss wasn't comin out without the tooth!!

He was such a tough little man! (gets that from his mom) I told him about tying floss to his tooth the other end to a doorknob, he thought that was so cool! So, here's the professional tie job...


and the other end...


... getting ready...



... as you can tell, he wasn't scared at all. Just excited to get his tooth out!




AND he even shut the door himself!! Unfortunately, he didn't shut it hard enough. Here's his disappointed little face....

(excuse the jammies he's had for 3 years... they're his fav)

Like I said, the floss wasn't coming out without a tooth! So we just wiggled it back and forth and it popped right out!

He may look traumatized, but I assure you, he wasn't. :) And now he has a cute little toothless grin. I LOVE it! I forgot how cute it is when kids lose a tooth!

They get their dancing skills from their dad...

Jaden was asking if he could listen to "Applebottome Jeans" in the car, then begged me to bring it in the house. This is how it all went down...

Valentine's and KynnLee's 2nd Birthday!

For Valentine's Day I decorated the kitchen and left little baskets for the kiddos. I wanted to make red heart-shaped pancakes and a cute breakfast, but it just didn't happen because I worked 3-11:30pm the night before and we have 9am church. Ah well, they still loved it!

Would you believe it if I told you my little princess just turned 2??? Oh my goodness! Yes, I know she looks much OLDER than 2, but she SHOULD be much younger than 2! I just can't believe it. I need her to stay little.

Of course she got spoiled for her birthday. Mom and dad got her a My Little Pony house, G&G Haynes got her the playhouse/ Foam Sweet Home (I'll have to take better pics) that's in the background, Beeda and Pa got her a CUTE doll that crawls, stands, walks, plays peek-a-boo, laughs, basically everything. She also got lots of super cute presents from her friends.

We just had some of her friends over and ate pizza and sandwiches, had cake and ice cream, and let the kids go nuts!

(the doll from Beeda and Pa)


(the house in the background, and cute friend gifts)

I love how all the kids gathered around real close for the cake. It was too cute! She couldn't help but try to get the Strawberry Shortcake off the cake. And she kept poking her finger in the icing. She didn't quite get that she needed to blow out the candles, so a friend helped her. :)

What a pretty little birthday girl!!

Happy Birthday KynnLee!! We love you!

Tobogganing

We got the opportunity to go tobogganing with some friends. What a blast!!

The drive there was pretty cool, all the trees were covered with snow.

We carried the toboggan to the top of the hill. Well, Trevor did anyway...

and made our way down...

Jaden was a tobogganing FOOL!! He went up every time someone was going. There were two little ones that couldn't go so we switched off, but J-man made sure to make his way up with whoever was going. He absolutely loved it.

Even the little kiddies had fun. We brought a baby sled and pulled them around. They both loved it! Little Brady would cry when we stopped! It was hysterical! They were so cute!

We hung out in the lodge to warm up between toboggans. KynnLee got Dina to entertain her for a bit. :)

We all had so much fun! A big thanks to Josh and Dina for inviting us all!

Student of the Week!

We are very proud of our little man for getting Student of the Week at school!

And only two weeks later he came home with it AGAIN!!

Jaden-boy likes to chat with his friends instead of paying attention at school. We started a behavior chart, and every day he is good and pays attention at school, his teacher sends home a smiley face. We told him that when he gets 10 smiley faces, we will have a family game night. Jaden gets to pick the games, Jaden gets to pick the junk-food, etc. He has come home with a smiley face every day since! So we are planning the first game night for this Friday!

Way to go Jaden! We are so proud of you!